Cresconius Di Todi

	Cresconius Di Todi Cresconius may refer to: * Flavius Cresconius Corippus, 6th-century poet * Cresconius Africanus, 7th-century bishop * Cresconius of Santiago de Compostela, 11th-century bishop {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Flavius Cresconius Corippus Flavius Cresconius Corippus was a late Berber-Roman epic poet of the 6th century, who flourished under East Roman Emperors Justinian I and Justin II. His major works are the epic poem ''Iohannis'' and the panegyric ''In laudem Iustini minoris''. Corippus was probably the last important Latin author of Late Antiquity. Biography He was a native of Africa, and in one of the manuscripts is called ''grammaticus'' (teacher). He has sometimes been identified, but on insufficient grounds, with Cresconius Africanus, a Catholic bishop (7th century), author of a ''Concordia Canonum'', or collection of the laws of the church. Nothing is known of Corippus beyond what is contained in his own poems. He appears to have held the office of tribune or notary ('' scriniarius'') under Anastasius, imperial treasurer and chamberlain of Justinian I, at the end of whose reign he left Africa for Constantinople, apparently in consequence of having lost his property during the Vandalic War and the subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cresconius Africanus Cresconius Africanus (Crisconius) was a Latin canon lawyer, of uncertain date and place. He flourished, probably, in the latter half of the 7th century. He was probably a Christian bishop of the African Church. Concordia canonum Cresconius made a collection of canons, known as ''Concordia canonum'', inclusive of the Apostolic Canons, nearly all the canons of the fourth- and fifth-century councils, and many papal decretals from the end of the fourth to the end of the fifth century. It was much used as a handy manual of ecclesiastical legislation by the churches of Africa and Gaul as late as the tenth century. Few of its manuscripts postdate that period. The content is taken from the collection of Dionysius Exiguus, but the division into titles (301) is copied from the ''Breviatio canonum'' of Fulgentius Ferrandus, a sixth-century deacon of Carthage. In many manuscripts the text of Cresconius is preceded by an index or table of contents (''breviarium'') of the titles, first edited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]